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SPACE RACE
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Sputnick 1
First man made object to orbit Earth
Launched by the U.S.S.R
Remained in orbit until January 4, 1958 -
Sputnick 3
Launced by U.S.S.R -
Tiros 1.
First successful weather sattlite
Launched by the United States -
US Ranger 7
Relays the first close-range photos of the Moon (JEFF UBETHCA) -
The first space walk
Made from Soviet Voskhod 2 by Cosmonaut Alexei A. Leonov
Duration 12 minutes -
Soviet Soyuz 1
Carried Vladimir M. Komarov
Crashed on April 24 -
Salyut 1
Is launched by the U.S.S.R
Orbited until May 28, 1973 -
Viking 2
Lands on Mars on the Plain of Utopia
Discovered water frost -
Pioneer 11
Reaches Saturn
Flying to within 13,000 miles and taking a close up photograph -
Asteriod XM1
Passes within 65,000 miles of Earth -
Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov
Returns to Earth after 438-day mission aboard Russian space station -
Endeavor
Lifts off to rendezvous with Mir
Eight U.S. docking with the Russian space station and the first by a shuttle other than Atlantis. -
Shenzhou
Launched by China
First unmanned test of their manned capsule -
Atlantis
Lifts off for the ISS
Carring the U.S.'s Destiny lavoratory module -
Endeavour
Launched carring the Raffaello logistics module back to the ISS with new supples
